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Erik Highter
@highter.bsky.social
Baltimore weirdo.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Judy Collins
Sting
CJ Chenier
Bruce Hornsby
2 Live Crew
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Prince
Fugazi
King Crimson
Chaka Khan
KARP
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Mose Allison’s 75th birthday
Europe during their “Final Countdown” tour
Nine Inch Nails’s first “final tour”
Dillinger Escape Plan’s final show
Metallica’s …AJFA tour
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My cat likes dashi powder
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Found this broken plastic label and don’t want to know what it was attached to.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sinatra At The Sands, Frank's 1966 album with Count Basie and his orchestra, is one of my favorite live recordings. Everyone sounds like they're having a blast. You can hear Sinatra smile. youtu.be/6IkOal9zJd4?...
Get Me To The Church On Time (Live At The Sands Hotel And Casino/1966)
YouTube video by Frank Sinatra - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is one of my favorite covers. I like the Stones version a lot, but this hits me harder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVG_...
Sway (Live)
YouTube video by Alejandro Escovedo - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The Court Jester (1955, dir. Norman Panama and Melvin Frank)
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reposted by Erik Highter
Hell yes
In case you missed it the first time (now with specific people tags!) @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social @ironspike.bsky.social @gailsimone.bsky.social

-Make all AI generated, or AI assisted works say so up front.
-Make all generated, or AI assisted works immediately part of the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
This campaign needs you now
Make All AI Creations Public Domain
c.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sometimes you need cannoli chips with a tub of filling.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The new Notwist track harkens back to their 90s stuff. I dig it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szaz...
The Notwist: X-Ray
YouTube video by morrmusic
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Wow! This rocks
Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This Peel Session version of "Gonna Creep Up On You" has an edge missing from the album version. Puts the Creep in it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwhh...
Thin Lizzy - Gonna Creep Up On You (John Peel Session 7th August 1973) [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Thin Lizzy Official
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My wife gave me a birthday present. My wife rules.
Also my night is sorted.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Erik Highter
Saw an interesting piece of advice recently: ask the AI search engines for an answer in a field in which you are very knowledgeable.

The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.

Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
Looked up “what mobile parking app do I need for <this town>” - AI summary on Google confidently gave me the wrong answer, which I ignored because **it is wrong a third of the time, about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING** (according to the last study I read.)

The shit just doesn’t work.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I read this series because of the Horned King painting. How could I not?
Josh is on the money here because they still fire my imagination like they did when I was a kid.
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.

This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reposted by Erik Highter
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Erik Highter
Farewell to the great Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer who played a pivotal part in introducing reggae to the rest of the world. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I know there are a few of my followers that follow bicycle road racing and this video about safety and deaths in the sport was interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzJD...
Why Are There So Many Deaths In Road Racing?
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I know there’s a new Predator thing but I’m a bit behind. One of these days I’ll see 1990’s Predator 2 and continue on from there.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The B-52’s debut is the Platonic Form of joy.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This was the first Rufus Wainwright song I heard and it’s still my favorite. Wild it turns 25 next summer. youtu.be/Afcjy5fjB94?...
Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk
YouTube video by Rufus Wainwright - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993, dir. Nick Park)
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My goal has been to avoid a career at all cost. Lots of jobs in lots of fields because once I get comfortable with how to do the work I get bored and want to learn how to do another thing. It’s financially stupid but rewarding in other ways.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Deliverance (1972, dir. John Boorman)
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Last Jellybean Johnson post. Most people don’t know he was also a great guitarist and did a fair amount of session work. Here he does Eddie Hazel proud. youtu.be/6oeSmg41QWc?...
“Maggot Brain” ( Eddie Hazel) Jay Bee & The Routine feat: Jellybean Johnson @danflynn8118 (11/16/22)
YouTube video by Dan Flynn
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I doubt too many folks will highlight Jellybean’s work in The Family but they were great too. He was so good at adapting Prince’s programmed drum patterns into the a live setting. youtu.be/v-mnW-4oOt4?...
The Family - High Fashion (Live - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN) [08-13-1985] 1080p 60fps
YouTube video by BEE-eye-ZEE
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM